Is anyone else as disappointed as I am in the make-up/casting for Kili (and Thorin to a lesser extent)? He is way too human looking. It's as if he was cast that way purely to put in a good looking character. Dwarves aren't supposed to look like that, where is his big beard or bulbous nose?
He looks completely ridiculous when pictured next to the rest of the dwarves.
It honestly doesn't bother me that much. And from I've seen of all of the dwarfs, it looks as though their facial features become more pronounced as they get older. That is actually something that happens naturally in people: their noses and ears continue to grow as they age. Why wouldn't the same happen to dwarves?
Thorin, Fili and Kili look reasonably alike, and I appreciate the effort there. The makeup department seems to be trying to make the members of the same dwarf families look as though they're actually related. And they've done that with the other dwarf families, too. Gloin looks very much like Gimli from LOTR. And there are resemblances between Gloin, Oin and Balin. Again, they're all family. It's that level of effort in the filmmaking process that I think really make a huge difference in creating a world like Middle Earth.